The Escherichia coli O157 flagellar regulatory gene flhC and not the flagellin gene fliC impacts colonization of cattle

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2894-2905

  Dobbin, Heather S ^a   Hovde, Carolyn J ^a   Williams, Christopher J ^a   Minnich, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ANUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATTLE; DUODENUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; FLHC GENE; FLIC GENE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM MUCOSA; REGULATOR GENE; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; RECTUM; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 33646349988     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.5.2894-2905.2006     Document Type: Article

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